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Top Web Chief Jim Brady Leaving Post

By Erik Wemple
City Paper
WASHINGTON — Washingtonpost.com will soon be looking for a new executive editor, following today’s announcement that Jim Brady will soon be leaving that post. Then again, it may not be looking to fill the slot. Over the next…

The Guild Holiday Party

Detroit Papers Reducing Home Delivery to 3 Days a Week

By JAMES RAINEY
Los Angeles Times

This might go down as the week that they took paper out of the newspaper business.
Detroit’s two daily newspapers announced Tuesday that they plan to reduce home delivery to just three days a week. And the…

AP Staffers Organize a Byline Strike

By Peter Johnson
USA Today

AP makes its point with blank bylines
About 1,700 reporters, photographers and other editorial workers at the Associated Press will withhold bylines and credits for one day to protest the lack of a new contract.
All member news organizations…

Ex-Post Editor Downie to Teach At Arizona State University

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By Joe Strupp
Editor & Publisher
NEW YORK — Former Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr., who retired earlier this year after leading the newspaper for 17 years, is joining the faculty of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication…

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